CORFU

The green island of Corfu, with its unparalleled natural beauty, rich cultural heritage and the modern tourist infrastructure is the most famous of the Ionian islands. Located on the shores of Italy and the mainland of Greece and is the northernmost of the Ionian islands, and at the same time, the most western part of the Greek territory.

According to tradition, the island took its name, Corfu, greece, by a nymph by this name, daughter of Asopos, the god of the rivers, which Zeus, the mighty king of the Olympian Gods, fell in love at first sight, and brought to the island to hide their mating from the wrath of his jealous wife, the goddess Hera. The first written mention of the island is located in Homer's Odyssey, as the island of the Phaeacians, where the legendary hero Odysseus, he found refuge in the arms of the local princess Nausika, after sinking of the ship.

The island has lush mountainous landscape, full of olive trees, pines and cypress trees, while the spectacular coastline is gathered many traditional quaint seaside villages, beaches and bays that are washed by crystal clear waters.

The capital of the island is the picturesque and the beautiful historical town of Corfu, one of the most attractive and best preserved medieval towns in Europe. A large part of the charm of this owes to the many scattered architectural elements, traces of different cultures that have settled on this all these years (Venetians, French and British).

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